funeral directors
This article which ran first in the New York Times but which I found in Saturday’s Minneapolis Tribune deals with the fact that death is trending to happen more often in homes rather than in institutions for the first time in over half a century. The article states that in 2017 (the latest year statistics…
Read MoreI came across this article last week which describes the work of Victor Sweeney as the single funeral director in the rural Minnesota town of Warren. Sweeney describes what he does and why he loves taking care of people at the time of death. The article also goes into the state of the profession in…
Read MoreA couple of things came to my attention last week that made me again think about the staffing issue facing funeral homes across the country. While I am no longer on the front lines in looking for licensed staff, I do hear from my colleagues that hiring and retaining professional funeral home licensed staff is…
Read MoreEven if you try to avoid it nowadays, it is hard not to notice the violence that is happening in America’s major cities. It seems like every day or every week we hear some type of story of violence in one of those cities. Frank Savory is an experienced funeral director in Kansas City, Missouri,…
Read MoreWayne Wilson was a Vietnam veteran who died at age 67 on May 28, 2019. According to sources, Wilson died without any surviving family members. It was that fact that led some of his friends to call out the community of Niles, Michigan to attend his memorial service last Wednesday in Niles. With the help…
Read MoreOver the last week I’ve read several articles from around the world that describe different aspects of funeral directing, working as a mortician, or operating a funeral home and the people that do those tasks. Without much editorializing on my part I am just going to present the articles for you to read. This article…
Read MoreWhile searching through articles pertaining to the death care industry I came across an article from Vice.com entitled, “Inside New Orleans Extreme Embalming Funerals” that you can read here. The article points out a trend, that as far as the author can tell started in Puerto Rico in about 2014 and has grown in acceptance…
Read MoreLast week Carriage Services, a funeral service public company based in Houston, Texas, announced that they had acquired two funeral homes in the State of Virginia. You can read the press release here. The release announces the acquisition of the Covenant Funeral Homes in Fredericksburg and Stafford, Virginia. The release goes on to say that…
Read MoreI came across an article the other day on nextavenue.org that you can read here pertaining to the growing number of women who are entering the funeral director field. The article focused on funeral director Jan Smith of Indianapolis who attended mortuary school in the 1990s. Ms. Smith recalls that the number of females in…
Read MoreWe’ve written several times in this medium that funeral homes all over the country are having tough times attracting and retaining new young employees. I came across an article published by ABC.net Australia that you can read here which points out maybe some of us older, set in our ways employers just need to be…
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